Roof shingle



y 21, 1940- R. T. PERKINS 2,201,917

ROOF SHINGLE Filed May 26, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 /0 igi/ fi Inventor A iiorney May 21, 1940. R E K s 2,201,917

ROOF SHINGLE Filed May 26, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor J2. Zfarkz 216 Attorneys as trating a ridge or hip type roof. Figure-2 is a transverse sectional view taken Patented May 21, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE noon SHINGLE Roscoe T. Perkins, Springfield, Oreg. Application May as, 1939, Serial No. 75,993

2 Claim.

narrow shingles slightly concaved at the bevel edges and all shingles tapering from their butt ends to the opposite ends thereof. The shingles thus formed and paired permits the laying of the shingles to completely close and seal the space occurring at the ridge or hip of the roof left uncovered by the usual roof shingles so that leaks will be entirely eliminated and permit a much quicker and efficient closing of the ridge orhip of the roof to be brought about at less cost than the present practice of cutting the shingles as they are laid, the shingles of the greatest width being nailed in place and overlapping the beveled edges of the narrow shingles with the nails acting to draw the wider shingles into the concaves of the narrow shingles thereby effectively sealing the joints between the pairs of shingles at their overlap.

with these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my inven-,

tion; reference is to be had to the following de scription and accompanying drawings. in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation ill on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary top plan view showing the present invention completely sealing the ridge or hip of the roof.

Figure 4 is a perspective view illustrating one pair of shingles.

Figure 5 is a perspective view illustrating another pair of shingles.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the numeral 5 designates a roof of a ridge or hip construction wherein the usual. conventional shingles leave at the ridge an open space, as shown at l. The present invention is for the purpose of economically and eiiiciently sealing the space I and providing a neat appearance to the roof. The present invention consists of pairs of shingles indicated by the characters I and I. The pairs of shingles t and s are pre-prepared and are to be sold for assembling in pairs, as shown in Figures 4 and 5, on the ridge or hip of the roof.

Each pair of shingles includes a wide shingle Ill and a narrow shingle II, the shingles having bevel edges so as to be brought in overlapping relation as shown in Figures 4 and 5, the wider shingles overlapping the narrower shingles. The narrow shingles are concaved from end to end at the bevel edges as indicated at l2. All shingles of I the pairs of shingles taper from the butt 1 ends toward their opposite ends.

In laying the pairs of shingles on the ridge or hipof the roof, the shingles are placed one narrow shingle and one wide shingle to each pair of shingles with the shingles of each pair of shinll gles reversely arranged to the shingles of the adjacent overlapping pair of shingles on'the ridge or hip so that the bevel edges of the. wide shingles overlap the bevel edges of the narrow shingles in a right and left hand manner with respect to the 20 ridge or hip which brings about closing and sealing of the space of the hip or ridge of said roof. The wider shingles are nailed in place with the nails completely covered by the next pair of. shingles laid. The nails draw down on the wider shingles forcing the latter tightly into the concaves of the narrow shingles and thereby eflfectively seal the adjacent edges of the shingles of each pair of shingles. I

It is believed that the foregoing description when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the construction and advantages of this invention to those skilled in the art to which a device relates, so that further detailed description will not be required. 1

Having thus'described my invention, what I claim is:

1. Shingles for covering ridges of roofs comprising prepared pairs of shingles tapering from the butt ends thereof to the opposite ends thereof, one shingle of each pair of shingles being of less width than the coinpanion shingle thereto and each shingle having a beveled edge and adapted to be laid for closing the ridge of the roof with the wider shingles overlapping the narrower shingles and nailed in place, said narrower shingles having their beveled edges concaved with the wider shin'gles drawn into the concavities thereof by said nails.

2. Shingles for covering ridges of roofs comprising prepared pairs of shingles tapering from the butt ends thereof to the opposite ends thereof, one shingle of each pair of shingles being of less width than the companion shingle thereto and each shingle having a beveled edge and adapted to he laid for closing the ridge of the roof with the wider shingles overlapping the narrower shingles and nailed in place, said narrower shingles having their beveled edges concaved with the wider shingles drawn into the concavities thereof by said nails, said shingles being prepared in right and left hand pairs or laid in overlapping relation on the roof so that the nails securing one pair of shingles will be overlaid by the adjacent pair of shingles thereto.

ROSCOE T. PERKINS. 

